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pivot-root test fails on Ubuntu 16.04

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, help-guix <help-guix <at> gnu.org>, Maria Sidorova <hydromasha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#25476: Test fail
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 10:56:42 +0200

Hello,

Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. márc. 30., P 18:39):
>
>> Hi Maria,
>>
>> Thanks for your report.  In practice you can safely ignore this test
>> failure.  We had a similar report earlier that this fails on Ubuntu:
>> <https://bugs.gnu.org/25476>.
>>
>> Something we should do, though, is to at least skip the test when we
>> know we’re using a faulty kernel.  Currently we already have:
>>
>>   ;; XXX: Skip this test when running Linux > 4.7.5 to work around
>>   ;; <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183461>.
>>   (when (or (not perform-container-tests?)
>>             (version>? (utsname:release (uname)) "4.7.5"))
>>     (test-skip 1))
>>
>> Gábor, given what you wrote about Ubuntu’s 4.4 kernel, should we
>> explicitly flag “4.4.0-116-generic” in a similar way?  Would it be
>> enough?
>>
>>
>>
> Yes, it seems that would be enough.
> We also have this "4.4.0-21-generic" for not x86.

OK, done.

As time passes, this test can no longer run given the constraints
above.  We should probably rethink it…

> Alternatively we can point Ubuntu users to the LTSEnablementStack.
> This provides a 4.8 kernel since 16.04.2. (feb. 2017.)

Yeah, well, no big deal.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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